Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works

Featuring

Friedrich Haider
Oviedo Filarmonía
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

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Composer Biography

Wolf-Ferrari's father was the German painter August Wolf, and Ermanno initially studied painting before turning to music at age 16.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolf-Ferrari's music transplanted 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century, making him one of the most popular opera composers globally before World War I.

Performer Biography

Friedrich Haider, the conductor of this album, is an ardent champion of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's music and has recorded the composer's complete orchestral works.

Composer Biography

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari adopted his double-barreled surname to unite the family names of his German father (Wolf) and Italian mother (Ferrari).

Composer Biography

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, the German-Italian composer, was born in Venice, which remained the emotional center of his life.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolf-Ferrari believed that 'modernity' and 'progressiveness' do not exist in art, and he expressed himself with a diatonic scale while many contemporaries used twelve-tone music.

Composition History

Almost all of Wolf-Ferrari's published orchestral works, apart from his Serenade for String Orchestra, were created in the autumn of his life, between 1935 and 1939.